Bloomberg: Investors call for climate disclosures in company accounts
David Pitt-Watson, research fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School, comments on the call for corporate reporting to reflect climate-related risks. “Many companies in all sorts of industries are going to have to revalue their assets so that they are sustainable,”…
Financial Times: Letters: Climate change risk will challenge even ESG funds
Dr Simon Taylor, Faculty (Professor level) in Management Practice (Finance) at Cambridge Judge Business School, writes in a letter to the Financial Times that climate change will challenge even investment funds focused on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. (subs)…
Scientific American: Our planet, our choice
A study on on the macroeconomic effects of climate change co-authored by Dr Kamiar Mohaddes, University Senior Lecturer in Economics & Policy at Cambridge Judge Business School, covered in Scientific American' August issue. The study says that “financial suffering as…
Think about how we think
Pandemic shows that organisational scholars need to see the world as systems of interdependent activity rather than individual entities, says Professor Jennifer Howard-Grenville. The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has shown that academics need to see the world in a new way:…
Leadership lessons
As an act of nature, coronavirus may make people change climate change behaviour, says Lord Browne. The fact that the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic stems from nature may prompt people to put more emphasis on changing behaviour to tackle climate change,…
Climate change
The Paris Agreement has no national quotas on CO2 removal, and new study co-authored by Dr David Reiner says that must be addressed. The Paris Agreement aims to keep global temperature rise this century well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts…
Phys.org: Countries must work together on carbon dioxide removal to avoid dangerous climate change
The Paris Agreement has no national quotas on CO2 removal, and a new study co-authored by Dr David Reiner says that must be addressed. “Countries such as the UK and France have begun to adopt binding ‘net-zero targets’ and whereas…
Beta activism
Third-stage corporate governance is taking centre stage over climate change, says Jon Lukomnik, a recent Pembroke Visiting Professor at Cambridge Judge Business School. Jon Lukomnik, the Managing Director of Sinclair Capital LLC and former Executive Director of the Investor Responsibility…
Greening business – the sustainability challenge
Fires, droughts, floods and Greta Thunberg - sustainability has never been so much at the forefront for global business. What are the trends to look out for? CJBS faculty, MBA alumni and a current MBA candidate give us their thoughts.…
Environmental Journal: Businesses urged to increase their resilience to climate change
Research co-authored at the Centre for Risk Studies, Cambridge Judge Business School, shows that climate change “could add around 20 per cent to the global cost of extreme weather events by 2040.” The Cambridge Climate Change Business Risk Index analyses…